It’s one of those films that’s supposed to make you feel uncomfortable. My mom bough the DVD but never watched it, as once was enough. There are plenty of things like that. It doesn’t make it bad.

What does make it bad is that I don’t think it quite worked. It just wasn’t bad enough to be different from what you’d see in Passion plays. I wanted to actually see Jesus look non-human due to all the torture.

“…I’m really surprised that no one has ever written a book or something theorizing that Judas is the actual messiah”
The manga Billy Bat, by Nagasaki Takashi and Urasawa Naoki (writer and artist of “20th Centuary Boys” and “Monster”), postulates something very similar to that. It’s a pretty weird religious parody(?) where a cartoon bat (god) guides humanity by talking directly to artists and influencing their works (or something like that, it isn’t finished yet so it’s hard to say).

There are a few chapters dedicated to Judas, ending with a dialogue between him and God after he sold out Jesus. which goes as follows:
J: “Has he met with you” (with he being Jesus)
G:

Also, Hagan should really read the book version of Last Temptation of Christ. Frankly, the movie is a rather poor adaptation. The author never intended it to be offensive to catholics, actually. It is a very interesting book.

I was looking forward to this, because I’ve enjoyed your work before, and I also enjoy religious critiques, as it can offer a valid, varying perspective. However, I was extremely disappointed and had to stop watching before I started yelling at the screen like a crazy person.

Frankly, this was embarrassing. While I agree with many of your criticisms against the movie, that’s really what you should have stuck to rather than trying to criticize something that you clearly haven’t done enough research on. You missed a lot of really obvious context that would have explained the situations alleged factual discrepancies you took issue with.

To clear up one thing (I stopped the video before you addressed this fully, so you might have reached this conclusion — though I doubt it. If you did, I apologize), you talked about how the Jews not executing Jesus themselves by stoning was a huge plot hole. It wasn’t. The reason that the Sanhedrin didn’t take such a direct approach was because there would have been public backlash, as Jesus had many admirers and followers. Going through the Romans was necessary for turning the people against Jesus; they wouldn’t have gotten away with just stoning him because Jesus wasn’t viewed as a criminal, they had to display him as a criminal first.

Things like this really aren’t helping the atheistic position. It just makes you all look bad.

Thanks, glad someone else pointed that out too. Sure they could have killed Jesus themselves, but every jew would have turned on the high priests then. Same reason why even Herode did not execute John the baptist at once.

Since the Romans (West and East or Greek) converted to Christianity by the exact unquestionable order of Emperor Constantine in the year 312, over time since possibly forever the Romans legally escaped blame for the death of Jesus so Jews are unfortunately eternally blamed and hated but it’s our fault that we invented Monotheistic Organized Religion so we Jews suck for that, personally I believe eternal Paganism would have made the world Earth a much better place to live for human beings and some animals.

How can you be a pagan? That’s not an actual religion but a group term christians and muslims used for anyone believing in other gods. If you believe in Scandinavian or Egyptian or Greek gods, then you are a follower of that pantheon… not a pagan.

This is Torture porn through and through, I’m sure Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels would loved this film if they had no censorhip policy all the time like most cinema worldwide back in the 1930s and 40s very disturbingly much and Mel Gibson would have been an actual honorary Nazi, he definitely would have been offered the position of Reich’s Minister of Culture possibly even replacing Goebbels by Hitler’s blessing.

Watch the film ‘Constantine’. It is standard to display angels as androgynous! You seem to want to find problems.

A man’s friend loves him, and so seeks to understand.
A man’s enemy hates him. He does not want to understand.

I don’t understand the anti Semitic claims about this film. It shows the Romans as being far more evil than the Jews, and even shows a bunch of Jews listening to the wisdom of Jesus and dropping their stones. What it displays is a bunch of people, and the most evil ones are displayed as being the religious organisations of men and the political and military organisations of men. While a common Jewish man being forced to participate shouts against them all. While Pilate displays himself as an innocent good man before the people, yet sharing the majority of the blame.
It is the same today: The Jews are an excellent people. The state of Israel against their will commits genocide.

Christians are like everybody else: The majority of them are fools and only a very few are wise.
Jesus said that nobody who hates has eternal life, that only love will save them and that they should forgive, or neither will they be forgiven. Anyone claiming to follow Christ who hates the Jews is a liar.
For the Jews brought forth Salvation to the Gentiles. Look at their efforts in preserving a holy book, and in the hands of the Gentiles the even more important New Testament has over 5000 different versions in full or in part, no two exactly alike! And twice as many denominations.
“Let he that is without sin cast the first stone.”

Many decisions in the film are clearly artistic, not to be accurate, but to teach things. And concerning Judas, he was just a small player in a greater scheme. He is technically unnecessary, but is there for another reason.

The Lord’s enemy frowns: He does not understand.
His friend need only ask, and all things are revealed!

This is how you are supposed to play songs with the film. That’s why it has captions!

The jews only had the law to execute Jesus for claiming to be the son of God. But he also called himself king according to his accusers, hence why they had to take him to Pilate, since that was a crime against Rome and they had no jurisdiction. Also, I think quite understandably they did not want to execute Jesus themselves and alienate the people following him – this way they would have the romans to blame for it all.

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